L1011fan

Everyone is experiencing the same problem. I have had to check for days to get one suitable aircraft. Its because the game is so full. If you have a route you need to jump on right now, go ahead and get one aircraft from another manufacturer with the same capacity or close. Having a common fleet is important, but the way things are in this game, fleet commonality is not a high priority for me like it use to be. And it really isn't going to hurt you to have a couple of other types in your fleet. Fleet commonality is in the top 3 things I try to do, but expansion is number one at this point. I have had mixed fleets before and nothing terrible happened. I might have saved some money, but it worked out ok. I just fool around with the fares and raise them as often as I can (maybe 1-2% per day depending how conditions are) without losing my load factors and still make money. I'm pretty sneaky about it when comes to fares. Otherwise, its all a waiting game if you are sticking to fleet commonality. And its a long wait as other players will agree.

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GDK

Yes. Agree with Tristarfan. If you wait for your desired planes, it will take you months in game day and all your competitors will be far ahead of you. Go get some alternative. Russian planes are cheap to get, but a little waste in term of maintenance cost and fuel consumption. But the fuel price now is not too high, you can get a Tu-204 with the price of B737 but the capacity of B757 for short haul route . However, check carefully before you lease it. It will be best if the C-Check is 11 months to go. Lease it for 1 year but at the 11th month, terminate the lease and get another one...

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sittingbull

but i guess i made mistake buying som 727 200 adv ) my mainatence wend up from 200 000 k i week to like 500 000 k i week .So i decide to go bankrupt and started over.even if i was making Profit from 1.4 mil i week i still was lossing like 200K to 300K i week and tickets was already Down 10 percent in pries.So i guees 2 differen type is ok but 3 different one might be not i good idea.

But am new to this game and i guess we all made mistakes to learn from ) .